Linux hosting, Windows hosting for joomla

Saturday, 16 May 2009 13:09

When we find ourselves taking a domino to create a site between the different bids you specify the hosting platform for the customer can choose between Linux and Windows.

Indeed, Linux and Windows are two operating systems, including their functions include the provision of web hosting. One of the most frequent mistakes people will be to think that in order to use a package with Linux platform must have a computer running the Linux operating system and to be able to buy a package with Windows platform must have a computer with the Windows operating system.

This is not true: the operating system of your computer (Windows, Linux or Mac) do not influence the creation and use of a site!
Usually, the site offers, for both solutions, a control panel similar, with an interface that simplifies the use, for example for database management and the FTP service.

Windows servers require more maintenance (and therefore cost more) than the Linux platform (which, being open source, has no licensing costs) but this difference in the offers is often not obvious.
About open source software projects (in recent years we have had an increase in applications of this type) using a platform, in turn, free like Linux.
As far as' an integrated Windows server integrates other products of Microsoft, which does not happen with Linux, but fortunately there are different applications and operating. If we look at the stability of a standard Linux operating system is more stable than the other.

Between the two different platforms, the performance is similar (Linux is slightly faster in the response of the server) and the differences relate to the technologies supported instead.
The characteristics that differentiate the platforms are: the database (MySQL uses Linux, while Windows uses MS SQ), languages like PHP, Perl used by both (even if the hosting is Linux-oriented PHP) and ASP, ASP.NET are Supported only on Windows platforms.
Features such as web space, however, e-mail, monthly traffic, backup, filters are (usually) equivalent.

As for the Joomla CMS you need to use a web features LAMP (acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). I recommended using a Linux platform, for various reasons:
•    Joomla on windows for the file. htaccess can not be used for;
•    Many hosting services the forbidden;
•    Joomla on a Windows server is slower and not all the modules work properly.

A good hosting for Joomla, as we see in Joomla Hosting, must have the version of PHP and MySQL 5 or higher (it is advised to avoid the versions 5.0.4 and 5.2.5 of PHP and if you have to do a conversion between two versions need to do a backup first) and so set the following parameters:
•    File Uploads: ON
•    Register Globals: OFF
•    Safe Mode: OFF
•    Session auto start: OFF
•    Mod_rewrite active
•    RG Emulation: ON
•    Zlib support XML and active
•    Session save path writable
•    Magic Quotes: ON
•    Magic Quotes GPC: ON
•    Magic Quotes Runtime: OFF
•    Output Buffering: OFF

If one has accidentally purchased a Windows hosting should ask for a change, perhaps after a good backup of the site. I 'also recommended to backup the database (making backups is never bad, indeed!) Even if the database is a thing unto itself.

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